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Yann Nicolas (yn...@merhaba.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
: OK... So I was a little afraid of installing Windows 95 over my old
: DOS 6.2/Windows 3.11 because I am a big gamer and thought that most
: games (read Wing Commander III and other "heavy" games) would not
: work...

: Well think again... For a while I thought I *had* to run all my DOS programs
: in a window and realized that eventhough most normal games would still
: work (X-COM 2, Doom, etc...) other wouldn't (System Shock, Wing
: Commander III, etc...). A little bummed out, I read the (great) help file and
: finally realized that you can actually allocate all your computer
: resources to your DOS programs... After a normal installation of the
: game (any) in a DOS box, you can go to the Windows Explorer (Win95's
: file manager), select the .exe program of the game, chose properties
: and then chose to run it as a DOS program... Now, the "neat" feature
: is that you can assign a different config.sys and autoexec.bat to
: *each* program... That's great because you can finally easily optimize
: each settings...

: Of course, it took a little twitching for some games (WC3 was a little
: hard for me), but once it's done, it works flawlessly... 

: There ya go, my $0.02 gaming opinion of Windows 95...

: Opinions/comments/questions welcome... :)

: PS: OS/2 users will tell me that "OS/2 did that a long time ago", but
: I tried it and didn't like it...

	Whether you liked it or not OS/2 has been doing that for a long
time.
--
Kevin Hurley
Alexandria, VA